Image of Carmen Lomas Garza

Las Peleoneras (1988), is a lithograph essential to one of Carmen Garza’s lithography remake of Polvo y Pelo, el Pleito (1987; Figure 2, Appendix 3). In Las Peleoneras (1988), the two main subjects are women are fighting over a man and have escalated the fight to outside El Rio bar, with an audience. The significance of this piece is one that can provide “humorous ruckus from the emotional distance provided by flat areas of color” (Cortez 93). Garza uses this particular technique to create saturation that dramatizes the situation depicted in the images pertaining to the intensity of the issue. Lastly, the three-dimensionality of detailing the subjects incorporated creates a heightened sense of attention to the objects and the chaos occurring in the image.